Pith Number

pith:LK5T74FN

pith:2012:LK5T74FNXF3GB54VTW4VPE7WVS

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A polling system whose stability region depends on a whole distribution of service times

Bara Kim, Natalia Chernova, Sergey Foss

arxiv:1205.6234 v1 · 2012-05-28 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LK5T74FNXF3GB54VTW4VPE7WVS}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:40:54.394518Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5abb3ff0adb97660f7959db95793f6aca0ceecc7801364bf0eb00adfec4add09

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.6234 · arxiv_version: 1205.6234v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.6234 · pith_short_12: LK5T74FNXF3G · pith_short_16: LK5T74FNXF3GB54V · pith_short_8: LK5T74FN

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LK5T74FNXF3GB54VTW4VPE7WVS \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 5abb3ff0adb97660f7959db95793f6aca0ceecc7801364bf0eb00adfec4add09

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "54a5a39bea73694a9f188b690be7a2a2874752c7088c2ccf1644f0e368dc4a27",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-28T23:22:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a7f97bd38c9c13a8327d09c4e86e82248e93e7a878a13aee69c41eb83946254"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.6234",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}